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Local schools receive natl. citizenship awards

The National Museum of Patriotism in Atlanta has named four Fayette elementary schools as national winners of the 2005 KC3 Citizenship in Motion Award.

Braelinn, East Fayette, Kedron and Robert J. Burch are among 11 schools nationwide to receive the honor, which recognizes outstanding performance and achievement in the area of positive citizenship. The benchmark for the award is implementation of the KC3 Casey Positive Label Certification Program that encourages partnership and community outreach.

To qualify for award consideration, schools had to have exceeded their program goals and earned outstanding partnership scores. The winners were selected from schools that earned the highest cumulative scores on the case study phase of the awards program combined with the highest performance scores.

The names of the national winning schools will become a permanent part of the museum’s new Casey KC3 Citizenship Exhibit, which opened to the public June 4.

“The achievement level was outstanding,” said Nick Snider, the museum’s president and founder of the Citizenship in Motion award. “Every winning school team exceeded all program goals and earned outstanding partnership scores.”

National winners decreased name calling by more than 30 percent and increased kind words and cooperation by 50 percent as measured by pre and post independent program surveys, according to Snider. Program officials say this behavior translates into increased classroom teaching times, improved school environments and safer buses.